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Feed Bag.

No. 234,593. Patented Nov 16,1880.

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"t 'ivrrnn TATES To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS It. LOWERRE, of Motthaven, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feed-Bags for Horses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of feedbags for horses which are divided, by two partitions, into three compartments-a central compartment, where the horses noseis inserted when the bag for feeding is suspended by straps to his head, and two side compartments, from which the oats pass down graduallyinto the central compartment to the animals mouth when he is eating.

A feed-bag of this class invented by me is shown in Patent No. 195,030, dated September 11, 1877, the main features of which are, that the top of the bag is provided with a supportin g wire frame to keep it rigid, and the side compartments have flanged covers, which are secured or hinged to the inner cross-bars and drawn down with their flanges over the outer bars of the frame to cover the oats when the 2 5 bag is filled.

The object of my present invention is to provide a feed-bag which shall be more flexible, and thus better adapted to be packed up in a small compass, and yet be rigid enough 0 to support itself without a wire frame when suspended and filled with oats.

The object is, further, to dispense with the aforesaid hinged or movable flanged covers, and to allow of the oats being transported and 5 retained ready for use in the side compartment of the bag itself without liability to descend into the central compartment until the bag is adjusted to the horses head, and then only as fast as he eats them.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of a feed-bag constructed according to my present invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, partly in section, taken on the line w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a 4 5 vertical section of the same, taken on the line 3 y of Fig. 1, and showing the bag filled and suspended for conveying and retaining the oats in the side compartments in readiness for use.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

'a'rnn'r amen.

THOMAS R. LOWERRE, OF MOTTHAVEN, YORK, N. Y.

FEED-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,593, dated November 16, 1880,

Application filed March 31, 1880. (ModeL) A is the body of the bag. B is the bottom, made preferably of leather, so as to be flexible and capable of being folded, as in Fig. 3. O G are two partitions dividing the bag into 5 three compartments-a central compartment (in which the animals nose is inserted when the bag is attached to his head by means of a strap, E) and two side compartments, into which the grain is placed, and from which it gradually slides down into the central coinpartment in proportion as the horse eats it. The lower edge of each of the flexible partitions 0 is made rigid by means of a small rod or stick, 0, reaehingacross the bag from front 6:; to rear, and the upper edge of each partition 0 is provided with a similar stiffening-rod, c, which latter is secured to the middle of the said upper edge, and reaches only along a sufficient portion thereof to serve as a means for fastening the strap E and keeping the bag in shape when suspended.

In order to prevent the upper edge of that part of the body A which forms the outer wall of the side compartments from collapsing or 7 falling down without the use of a rigid frame, each side compartment is partly and permanently covered by a canvas or other flexible covering, D, which is sewed to the upper edge of the entire wall of the side compartment, with the exception only of that middle portion thereof which is bordered by the short rod or stick 0, from whence outward a part of the cover D is cut away to leave an opening, (1, sufficiently large to allow of filling the compartment with grain.

In the front wall of the central compartment is made a large opening, F, to admit plenty of air to the animal, the wall being made only high enough from the bottom to prevent the 00 horse from spilling grain while heeats.

Before filling the bag the bottom B is folded inward, as shown in Fig. 3, until pressed on opposite sides of the folding loop by the rigid .lower edges, 0, of the partitions (l, and is kept 5 in the said position by hooking together the hook and eye a a, which, for this purpose, are sewed to the canvas of the bag A at opposite lateral edges of the bottom B. The upper edges, 0, of the two partitions G are then brought together and the bag suspended by its strap, as in Fig. 3, after which the cats may be poured in through the two openingsd simultaneously to fill the side compartments without spilling any of them into the central compartment. The hook and eye a a are, of course, not separated to allow the grain to enter the central compartment until the bag has been first strapped to the horses head with the nose of the latter entered into the central compartment.

If a wooden or other inflexible bottom is used, the closing of it against the rigid edges 0 to prevent the grain from entering from the side to the central compartment may be effected by connecting an eye, a, (sewed at each of the two laterally-opposite edges of the bottom,) to engage a hook, I), sewed to the canvas a little higher up on the same side.

It is evident that when only a small quantity of oats is needed, as for a short journey, it may be carried in the bag itself, so as to be always ready for use, and when empty the outer walls of the bag may be conveniently folded upon the closed partitions C, (see Fi 3,) and the bag may thus be packed in a very small compass for shippin Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a feed-bag, the flexible cover D, secured permanently along its entire edge to the upper edge of each grain or side compartment, and having a charge-opening, d, on each side adjacent to the rigid part 0 of the partition (1, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. A feed-bag divided into a central and two side compartments, with passages between the central and side compartments, and having a flexible bottom with a fastening device, which bottom when folded inwardly and fastened closes the passages between the compartments, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a feed-bag, the combination of the partitions (1, having rigid lower edges, 0, the flexible bottom B, and the fastening device a a, constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

THOMAS It. LOWERRE.

Witnesses:

A. W. ALM vIs'r, SIGFRID LINDIIAGEN. 

